(In the early 1980s, gold was discovered on several properties west of Battle Mountain, Nevada along I-80, on ground owned by the Santa Fe Railroad (formerly SP).) The Santa Fe Pacific Corporation (a name correlation of Santa Fe and Southern Pacific) was to develop the properties. While Southern Pacific (railroad) was sold off to Rio Grande Industries, all of the SP's real estate holdings were consolidated into a new company, Catellus Development Corporation, making it California's largest private landowner, of which Santa Fe remained the owner. The companies were so confident the merger would be approved that they began repainting locomotives and non-revenue rolling stock in a new unified paint scheme. The merger was subsequently denied by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) on the basis that it would create too many duplicate routes.
As part of the joining of the two firms, all rail and non-rail assets owned by Santa Fe Industries and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company were placed under the control of a holding company, the Santa Fe–Southern Pacific Corporation. The Southern Pacific Santa Fe Railroad (SPSF) was a proposed merger between the parent companies of the Southern Pacific and AT&SF announced on December 23, 1983. The railroad officially ceased operations on December 31, 1996, when it merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway.ĪT&SF and SP Railroad trains meet at Walong siding on the Tehachapi Loop in the late 1980sĪT&SF began to talk mergers in the 1980s. The AT&SF was the subject of a popular song, Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer's " On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe", written for the film The Harvey Girls (1946). Its bus line extended passenger transportation to areas not accessible by rail, and ferryboats on the San Francisco Bay allowed travelers to complete their westward journeys to the Pacific Ocean.
The Santa Fe was a pioneer in intermodal freight transport at one time or another it operated an airline, the short-lived Santa Fe Skyway, and a tugboat fleet.
Eventually a branch line from Lamy, New Mexico brought the Santa Fe railroad to its namesake city. To create a demand for its services, the railroad set up real estate offices and sold farmland from the land grants that it was awarded by Congress.ĭespite being chartered to serve the city, the railroad chose to bypass Santa Fe, due to the engineering challenges of the mountainous terrain. The railroad reached the Kansas– Colorado border in 1873 and Pueblo, Colorado in 1876. The railroad was chartered in February, 1859 to serve the cities of Atchison and Topeka, Kansas, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ( reporting mark ATSF), often referred to as the Santa Fe or AT&SF, was one of the larger railroads in the United States.
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